hellenismo:Ἑβδόμη Μεσοῦντος/ Ἑβδóμη ἐπὶ δέκα / Ἑπτακαιδεκάτη, XVII day From today’s sunset: seventee
hellenismo:Ἑβδόμη Μεσοῦντος/ Ἑβδóμη ἐπὶ δέκα / Ἑπτακαιδεκάτη, XVII day From today’s sunset: seventeenth day of Hekatombaion. The Orgeones sacrifice to the Hero Echelos and to the Heroines (cfr. http://philipharland.com/greco-roman-associations/1-decree-of-the-sacrificing-associates-of-echelos-and-the-heroines/) “Throw out Demeter’s holy grain upon the well-rolled threshing floor on the seventh of the mid-month. Let the woodman cut beams for house building and plenty of ships’ timbers, such as are suitable for ships.“ The scholia add: “If, as Orpheus says, the seventeenth day is dedicated to Ate, and therefore it is suitable for cutting the wood and for stripping the fruit from its coverings, also Hesiod, not without love for Muses, consecrated the day to these works.” Erga, 805-808 ( Marble votive relief, found in Neon Phaleron, Attica ca. 410 BC. in the National Archaelogical Museum, Athens. Votive relief decorated on both sides. It is made of Pentelic marble. On one side is depicted the abduction of the Nymph Basile by the hero Echelos. Hermes, holding a painted whiplash in his right hand, leads the charriot with the couple. The names of the three figures are carved on the epistyle, above the composition: Hermes, Echelos, Basile.) -- source link
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